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What's So Special About Orange Smarties? [UK, not US Smarties]
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hydrophilic attack
Member
The only good thing about the American candy situation is that it's so bad that at least people should have an easy time of not getting fat
Oh wait
Oh wait
I agree. It's hard to find a good fizzy cola candy around here. I end up suckin on five at a time to get the same effect. Never satisfying.
To be fair candy isn't why we are fat, it's soda and fast food and other assorted processed junk food that is prevalent and cheap.
Why does sugar do this? Many hard or jelly candies that sit in the mouth for a while feel like they dissolve all the soft surfaces they touch.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001F35WSQ/?tag=neogaf0e-20
I think after getting through this bag you'd lose your sense of taste forever.
Ditto pear drops.
Fizzers, in UK parlance.
My god. At least tell me they still have the random letter under the lid?
Also I'd just like to clarify that the American Milky Way is a poor imitation of what we would call a Mars Bar:
Whilst our Milky Way is this delight:
Which is a VERY light vanilla nougat covered in milky milk chocolate.
(I've just eaten three.)
Catchpenny
Member
Shit food and superior candy, now I understand why the Brits have such bad teeth.
Shake Appeal
Member
America has some good, unique candy. Reese's, for example. It's kind of taken off in the UK and Ireland, but a lot of the variations still aren't there.
For basic chocolate bars, though, America is trash-tier. And Hershey's tastes like vomit.
openrob
Member
What? No. Smarties.
UK, yeah. Do American ones all have individual flavours?
Do you want to know the fucked up conspiracy?
The SNES had a different form factor in the US.
In the UK the controller buttons look like Smarties.
However the US version's buttons look like US Smarties!!!
Shake Appeal
Member
Other good American candy you can't get in the UK/Ireland includes Whatchmacallit (although it's basically a lighter Toffee Crisp), Airheads, Tootsie Roll Pops (although Tootsie Roll itself is meh), York Peppermint Patties (although you could eat After Eights, I guess), and most Wonka candy (and especially Sweet Tarts, Nerds, Nerds ropes).
None of those are without replacement in the UK, but Trolli candy is hard to find over there, and they do good fruit candy shit (the crawlers, the eggs).
In general, American chocolate just isn't worth eating.
None of those are without replacement in the UK, but Trolli candy is hard to find over there, and they do good fruit candy shit (the crawlers, the eggs).
In general, American chocolate just isn't worth eating.
polyh3dron
Banned
Because of the Hershey Cartel, keeping everything Cadbury out of the US and replacing certain Cadbury things with vastly inferior Hershey versions.They look like Fizzers:
Except Fizzers are nice and fizzy.
Why are American sweets so bad?
Canada has these Smarties from the OP too.
Hell no, European Milky Ways are nasty, they are pretty much what Americans know 3 Musketeers bars to be. Ate a few overseas on deployment and I vastly prefer our version of the Milky Way. Love to freeze them especially.Also I'd just like to clarify that the American Milky Way is a poor imitation of what we would call a Mars Bar:
Whilst our Milky Way is this delight:
Which is a VERY light vanilla nougat covered in milky milk chocolate.
(I've just eaten three.)
Pinko Marx
Banned
We make up for the bad candy with good everything else food related...Well maybe yurop has us beat in cheese too but we're still #1
Messofanego
Banned
Jimnymebob
Member
Smarties were amazing when they came in actual tubes with the coloured plastic caps with letters on them, then they put them in those cardboard hexagonal (?) tubes, made the blue into some crappy pale blue and made the orange not taste orange for a spell.
The orange ones are orange flavoured again, but the lack of vibrant blue and plastic lids are still dealbreakers.
Giant Smarties were amazing.
Anyway, I've just found this gem of a site.
http://smartiescollector.com/northerntrumpet/The_Smarties_Tube_Gallery.html
The orange ones are orange flavoured again, but the lack of vibrant blue and plastic lids are still dealbreakers.
Giant Smarties were amazing.
Anyway, I've just found this gem of a site.
http://smartiescollector.com/northerntrumpet/The_Smarties_Tube_Gallery.html
show me your skeleton
Member
yes and it has always confused me why someone thought kids would want to eat foam candy versions of shrimp... that for some reason have a strawberry flavour.
Barberetti
Member
I thought the orange ones were added at a later date and they decided to make them orange flavoured just for the hell of it.
That could be complete bullshit though.
That could be complete bullshit though.
hydrophilic attack
Member
I'm willing to give you #1 in beer and hamburgers and top two for pizza. But educate me, in what else are you number one?
plagiarize
Banned
Look what you did.
They didn't have Vimto though, so I had to order some online
Messofanego
Banned
Pretty sure white theme is bannable.
Look what you did.
They didn't have Vimto though, so I had to order some online
Man, I want to get a Smarties now. Haven't had one in years.
Sir_Crocodile
Member
https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/dip-dabs.html
https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/fizzy-cola-bottles.html (note these are a million times better then the garbage haribo trundles out)
https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/barratts-shrimps.html
https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/refreshers.html
All great, though the king for me is the double dip:
https://www.aquarterof.co.uk/double-original.html
Which is actually triple these days, though the old name persists. The dip stick is also edible and delicious. Sherbet based confectionery is the beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeest.
Barberetti
Member
They're good at basements.
Jeff Albertson
Member
Anyone remember in the 90s when for a short period of time a certain colour of smarties - I want to say blue or purple had sunglasses printed on them? Good times man
Also Vimto is amazing I'm northern so it's a staple here
Also Vimto is amazing I'm northern so it's a staple here
Monty Mole
Member
I can't imagine not having access to Vimto.
Look what you did.
They didn't have Vimto though, so I had to order some online
We exile the non-believers.
Jeff Albertson
Member
Is there some sort of Vimto famine going on? Double strength needed
Monty Mole
Member
Nobody does. They just haven't tried the proper stuff.
My (Canadian) friends in Canada always make me fill my suitcase with British chocolate before I go to visit them.
Whenever I visit the US and Canada I'm always shocked at just how poor quality chocolate and sweets are compared to the UK and the rest of Europe. Really cheap and nasty stuff that wouldn't even pass for bargain store quality in the UK. That said, Junior Mints are alright (but have nothing on After Eight mints).
Marky Mark
Member
UK (and Australian) Smarties are to M&Ms as Pepsi is to Coke.
The mall near me has 2 giant candy stores inside as well as an Asian store that has a huge selection of imported Asian candy; across the street from it is a World Market that has aisles and aisles of imported candy and I recognize most of the ones in this thread. The grocery store by my house has a large selection of imported European and Asian candy's and dozens of high end local chocolate bars; Or you can visit the actual chocolatiers since they are a few minutes away..or go to one of the numerous Mexican grocery stores for Mexican candy or European specialty stores for European candy. That's all within 10-15 minutes of my suburban home.
I don't know why Europeans are so dead set on convincing themselves that Americans only have access to the things you'd find at a Walmart. I'm dead set on commenting on it in every thread like this though
I'm gonna go make some tea in my electric kettle now.
I don't know why Europeans are so dead set on convincing themselves that Americans only have access to the things you'd find at a Walmart. I'm dead set on commenting on it in every thread like this though
I'm gonna go make some tea in my electric kettle now.Ha, it looks weaker than it was because I had a desk lamp pointed directly at it.
SirMossyBloke
Member
Oh yeah? Time for an education.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/datalab/british-teeth-arent-that-bad-american-teeth-are-far-worse
The heck, I live in Ontario and we get lots of the same candies as the UK in our stores. I can go to any convenience store and buy a Crunchie, Flake, Dairy Milk, Yorkie, sometimes Twirl... not to mention almost every grocery store having a specific UK section with the remaining stuff like Twirl, Double Decker and Fry's Turkish delight and junk. I actually thought for the longest time Crunchie was a Canadian bar like Coffee Crisp.
Monty Mole
Member
I love UK peanut butter, which is savoury in taste and has crunchy peanut bits.
But American peanut butter is disgustingly sweet with added sugar and also oddly smooth.
They live in Calgary. They can get some Cadbury stuff but it's locally produced and doesn't taste anything like the UK stuff apparently. It's not just Cadbury stuff they get me to take over though.
Lol.
The (arguably) best chocolate bar in the world, also the one that sells the most by far, is American.
Snickers.
There's a huge array of peanut butter at my grocery store; at least 6-7 brands that are regional. All variations of smoothness, different nut types, sweet or not sweet.
Seriously what in the world is the deal with these threads? lol
Monty Mole
Member
But American peanut butter is made with the discarded foreskins of American babies (or is that your moisturisers?)